As a nonprofit finance leader, you need fact-based data analytics to provide lines of sight across the organization and enable you to make informed decisions. You need to transition from historical scorekeeper to future-focused data-driven strategist, but how?

Join Joan Benson, Director Nonprofit Industry Marketing, Sage Intacct, as she walks you through practical steps you can take to become a data-driven nonprofit finance leader as well as:

The changing role of nonprofit finance leadership.

Best practices for becoming a data-driven strategist.

Features needed in a financial system to enable you to become data-driven.

Success stories of how nonprofit CFOs used data-driven strategies to advance their mission.

If your nonprofit is considering a technology implementation, don’t be a statistic! The research firm The Standish Group tracked 50,000 technology projects and found that 70% failed to be either on time, on budget or end with satisfactory results.

Join nonprofit implementation experts: Cheryl Gipson and Donna King, for this candid talk on the unique #fails of nonprofit implementations. But more importantly, take home words of wisdom and sage advice from these two consultants who have a combined 40 years’ worth of project success.

As a nonprofit, you have many jobs that need to get done and most often, there is limited time and resources to make it all happen. Constantly looking for new ideas to increase revenue, change things up, and get new supporters can be exhausting. Do-it-yourself fundraising (or DIY) can be a great way to easily add a new fundraising channel in order to help achieve your goals.

Join DIY fundraising leaders CrowdRise and the American Cancer Society to walkthrough all aspects of DIY fundraising programs. With industry insights from CrowdRise and real life examples and input from ACS, this webinar will cover:

The Overhead Myth is a tale all too familiar in the nonprofit sector. Unrealistic funder expectations put pressure on nonprofits to minimize infrastructure needs. Pitting operations against programs eventually ends with misleading reporting, thus fueling the vicious cycle. But what is the answer for nonprofits that are ready to break this cycle?

A capable financial system is the foundation for a solution. In this session, we will explore how nonprofits can implement the right technology in their organization to break the vicious cycle, and accelerate their mission.

Join NetSuite, Tides & The Nonprofit Times to discuss :

How the Overhead Myth is starving nonprofits of proper infrastructure to succeed.

Where nonprofits can take advantage of social impact programs to lessen the financial burden.

What best practices other nonprofits are implementing to use technology for good.

GuideStar, the premier data aggregator in the non-profit space, became a Sage Intacct customer in 2016. Because both organizations have been focused on helping non-profit orgs utilize their data to strengthen impact and better tell their story, it became clear there were synergies that could be leveraged to enhance support of nonprofits.

Together, Sage Intacct and GuideStar are providing non-profit finance and fundraising teams with powerful tools and technology to easily manage their financial health and stability – a critical element to strengthening stewardship, expanding impact, and growing revenue. This technology also gives you automation of real time metrics that will help you connect with donors who are passionate about your cause.

In this webinar, we’ll share technology, tools, and information that finance teams can use to strengthen performance, funding, and impact. You’ll learn:

How you can leverage your valuable data and why you need to.

How GuideStar is partnering and supporting nonprofit orgs to increase your visibility and accessibility with potential donors.

How you can automate key metrics and performance to better tell your story.

With uncertainty around the impact of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” legislation, many people are wondering what the real impact will be for charitable giving. What will the shift from itemizers to non-itemizers do to the donations you depend on to sustain your mission? How will corporate giving be impacted by the legislation, how will it affect your organization, and most importantly – what can you as a financial leader do to help sustain giving?

In this webinar, we will:

Look at trends in giving.

Explore economic expectations and corresponding impact to giving.

Discuss what finance leadership can do to ensure sustainability.

Show you how your organization can leverage technology to help bolster support and increase donations.

Join Sage Intacct and NonProfit Times for a timely discussion on how to prepare for the effects of tax reform and how your finance team can help ensure your organization’s revenue and impact are sustainable.

The information of as many as 80 million Americans was gathered by Cambridge Analytica via Facebook. That’s data on donors and advocates who posted support on nonprofit Facebook sites that was used without the knowledge or consent of anyone. Does what Facebook know about your donors – and the use of that data without you knowing about it – damage an organization reputation? Here’s what you can do about it.

During this 60-minute webinar, experts will give you:

Top ways to protection your organization’s relationships.

How to limit what information is available about your donors and advocates.

Does your organization effectively measure progress toward its mission? Quantifying and reporting this information to constituents can be tricky. During this webcast, you will learn trade secrets on high performing not-for-profits using Charity Navigator’s recommended governance metrics.

Ripped from the headlines are stories of inappropriate workplace behavior. The nonprofit sector is not immune from this plague. The NonProfit Times will hold a webinar on workplace issues on Thursday, March 15 with three nationally-known nonprofit risk and human resources experts. The speakers will cover legal issues, procedures and methods. There will also be materials you’ll be able to immediately use.

Titled “Combating Inappropriate Workplace Conduct At Nonprofits,” the speakers include Melanie Herman, executive director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, Lisa Brauner, an attorney with Perlman + Perlman and Tycely Williams, vice president of development at YWCA USA. The speakers will cover legal issues, procedures and methods. There will also be materials you’ll be able to immediately use.

What is cybersecurity? Does your organization have cybersecurity policies in place which staff know and understand? Do you know how to move forward to ensure you’re safeguarding critical data and complying with global privacy standards? Hear from cybersecurity experts and learn steps you can take to identify your risks and take action to help protect your organization. Learn practical tips on how to train your staff to reduce risks and how best to manage recovery if your data is compromised.

It’s clear: nonprofit organizations have very different accounting needs than for-profit companies. Is it time to consider a new accounting system for your nonprofit? What features and functionality should you look for? This is what we’ll address in this webinar. Our nonprofit accounting experts, Jacki Tiso, CEO, JMT Consulting and Joan Benson, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Sage Intacct, will show you how to simplify the process and ensure that you can manage funds, track grants, and easily report on outcomes.

In this one-hour webinar, you’ll learn how to:

Take advantage of new options made possible by cloud computing

Find the right vendor by following 5 best practices

Select the best system to maximize financial transparency and accountability to key stakeholders.

Join Erica Waasdorp, President of A Direct Solution and Donor Perfect Expert as she shows you the importance of converting small donors to give monthly so they keep giving for years and years. With lively Q&A and Polls!

You won’t want to miss this! Erica Will:

Help prepare you to launch your monthly donor campaign in the new year, with examples and results.

Provide online and off-line approaches on how best to convert donors generated or reactivated through giving days or year-end appeals.

How ARCHS and its partner agencies manage results

Provide free Tools and templates, like the new Monthly Donor Road Map and the Donor Perfect Monthly Donor Starter and Marketing Kits

With so many unique pain points and challenges, nonprofit finance is never easy. Our recent survey of nonprofit finance leaders revealed that their teams are struggling with competing priorities, constrained resources, inefficient technology tools, and ever-changing reporting and compliance requirements. What’s your strategy for transforming your organization’s performance? In other words: What’s your roadmap for nonprofit finance? Join us as we share the highlights from our survey and a practical technology roadmap for a streamlined, productive finance organization that is tightly aligned with your mission.

In the webinar you’ll learn:

The top pain points facing nonprofit finance teams

How connected systems improve finance’s efficiency and visibility

How automated processes and reporting can transform your organization

Why leading nonprofits are using collaboration tools to streamline communication and coordination

Many metrics that were part of solid business planning and decision-making are no longer relevant today. The reason for that is data. It is granular and in many cases so precise that the decision is made simply by looking at the numbers. Data is redefining nonprofit financial stability.

Regulators are also changing the rules of the game, seeking greater transparency in how data is presented, particularly financial data. Technology is also a foundation in this new era of information, from hardware to software, including artificial intelligence.

Three nationally-known executives steeped in nonprofit finance will sort through the future of financial underpinnings at nonprofit organizations and will discuss the newest data needs for contemporary decisions.

Trying to crack the code on what foundations and other funding groups want from the agencies they support? You aren’t alone! Get the inside scoop in the What Funders Want live webinar. The live webinar features results from a recent survey of foundations as well as firsthand experience from St. Louis based funder, ARCHS.

In a recent industry study, 80 percent of nonprofit finance professionals say their organization plans to grow in the next 12-18 months. Nonprofit growth presents its own unique set of challenges, and, if not managed properly, can actually hurt your organization. With challenges and opportunities in mind, how do you prepare your budget, staff, and organization for growth? In this webcast, we’ll look deeper into industry research exploring growth trends in the nonprofit sector. This session will focus on the impact of growth across a nonprofit organization, from budget planning, increasing compliance complexities, shifts in the workforce to growth strategies around grants, and new revenue sources. We’ll dive into specific tips and suggestions to help you get the most out of the data in the study and prepare your organization for successful growth.

Your data is a treasure vault of valuable information that not only tells your story, but also illustrates your impact, and validates your donor’s trust and mission investment

By leveraging modern technology, you can automate your key metrics, while gaining a real time view into where you are and how you’re doing. Easily compute, view, compare, and benchmark your performance with others doing similar work.

Join us to hear from GuideStar, the world’s largest source of nonprofit data, and Intacct, award winning provider of cloud financial management, to learn how to:

We’ve all been there: shuffling through paper registrations, herding volunteers, and feverishly clicking from one Excel sheet to another. And don’t even ask about the budget. It’s a fact: events are hard. But they don’t have to be a horror show!

This webinar will provide tips, insights, and best practices from a roundtable of industry experts and nonprofit professionals. Learn how to keep your team aligned, stay on budget, save lots of time, and raise more money at your next event.

Does your organization need to begin, or upgrade, its advocacy efforts? The good news is you don’t need a huge budget or commit to a year-long program to not only get your activism off the ground but also compete with the big guys. Organizations with digital advocacy platforms in place to alert supporters to petition their lawmakers when something is going down, such as the ACLU, IRC, Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace, have seen their donations skyrocket in the first two months of 2017.

Having a simple activism playbook and tool in place means they get the word out to take action, fast, creating even bigger advocate networks, and ultimately, bigger donor lists. Learn how you can act like the big organizations, even with a tiny budget or staff, to get the same big results.

Not-for-profit organizations and associations of all sizes are achieving dramatic results by managing their fundraising, programs and communications on the Salesforce platform.

Why would you manage your people, projects and finances from a separate system(s)? In this session we discuss how nonprofits have achieved dramatic results by managing their apps on a single cloud, creating an end-to-end solution for staff, volunteers, supporters and beneficiaries – unifying their entire operation on the Salesforce platform.

Join us for the one hour webinar “Meeting Evolving Nonprofit Regulations and Standards”, as nonprofit accounting expert, Jacqueline Tiso of JMT Consulting, explains how nonprofits can leverage their accounting systems to effectively meet and comply with ever evolving regulations and standards.This webcast will cover the following:

What new regulations and changing standards you need to be aware of

How to implement internal controls to ensure accountability

How to provide transparency to show compliance with funder requirements

As a financial strategist for a nonprofit, you understand the challenges of high processing costs, exceptions, and lengthy invoice and payment approvals. Unfortunately, a paper-based AP process only exacerbates these issues; it doesn’t solve for them. Watch the on-demand webinar above, featuring Henry Ijams, VP of Supplier Solutions at AvidXchange, for an information-packed webinar on Trends in Purchase to Pay – Expanding Your Role in Nonprofit as a Financial Strategist, hosted by The NonProfit Times. This webcast will cover the following:

Join us for the one hour webinar “Meeting Evolving Nonprofit Regulations and Standards”, as nonprofit accounting expert, Jacqueline Tiso of JMT Consulting, explains how nonprofits can leverage their accounting systems to effectively meet and comply with ever evolving regulations and standards.This webcast will cover the following:

What new regulations and changing standards you need to be aware of

How to implement internal controls to ensure accountability

How to provide transparency to show compliance with funder requirements

Fundraising and finance departments are critical to leading the growth and success of nonprofit organizations. Yet, nearly 55 percent of fundraising and 45 percent of finance professionals believe their departments are not at all or only “somewhat” collaborative with each other. Abila surveyed both nonprofit finance and fundraising professionals to better understand the collaborative nature of the two departments, and the biggest challenges they face when working together. Based on the study findings, we will dive into strategies for improving cross-departmental collaboration including demystifying commonly misunderstood jargon, management strategies to empower emerging leaders, and new opportunities for information sharing.

Details: 6 out of 10 donors who gave last year won’t give this year. Nonprofits spend large sums of money acquiring new donors, yet they’re losing more than they keep. A proven solution to donor retention is a monthly giving program. In this free webinar, you’ll see examples of how important monthly donors are to improving your donor retention. You’ll learn how to organize your program and start marketing it to your donors. Attendees will receive two free e-books to help start and grow your program.

What are the most pressing issues facing the nonprofit community today? Does your nonprofit have a plan to face these challenges head on? We will examine these questions and more when we talk with Marc Pitman, fundraising coach and founder of the Concord Leadership Group and Jim Funari, co-founder and CEO of StratusLIVE. This fast-paced, discussion-style webcast will cover the following:

After all of the great work your nonprofit does, how do you show it? How do you quickly and clearly validate, quantify, and report on the outcomes of your activities? Leading nonprofits are utilizing outcome measures to demonstrate success to donors and stakeholders. Join us for “Outcome Measures – The Metrics that Matter for Nonprofits.” During this webinar, you’ll learn what’s driving forward-thinking nonprofits to shift their focus to outcome measures – and using a cloud-based financial management solution to make it happen. You’ll see a live demonstration and learn: